Machine generated contents note: Part I Disparate Treatment -- 2 Gender and Race Discrimination in Retail Car -- Negotiations (with Peter Siegelman) -- 3 Toward Causal Explanation -- 4 Discrimination in Consummated Transactions -- 5 Legal Implications -- Part II Disparate Impact -- 6 Unequal...

This paper studies the consequences of certain widespread policies for the quality and sustainability of growth. These policies cause economic inefficiency, environmental destruction and increased poverty. The paper develops a political economy model to show why the existence of such policies is...